Google Chrome 28 Lands on Windows and Mac with Richer Notifications

Rich notifications for all!

Google has begun updating Chrome users on Windows and Mac with version 28 (you can manually check by selecting "About Google Chrome" from the customization pull-down menu). Windows users are the bigger beneficiary, as they're the ones who will begin to see richer notifications for apps (shipping to Mac soon), a feature that was previous only available in the beta build of Chrome but is now accessible to everyone.

The other big mention is that this is the first version of Chrome to ship with the Blink rendering engine rather than WebKit. Blink is actually a fork of WebKit developed by Google and Opera Software as part of the Chromium project. With Blink, Chrome users should see improved performance, speed, stability, and security.

In addition to feature updates, Chrome 28 fixes a handful of bugs, some of which proved lucrative to the bug hunters who found them. Collin Payne, for example, was awarded $6,264.40 for discovering a Critical bug related to network sockets. Google also paid out $3,133.70 for a Medium vulnerability that allowed for a man-in-the-middle attack against HTTP in SSL, as well as several other rewards.